G.SR.08.05 Solve applied problems involving areas of triangles, quadrilaterals, and circles.
METS-S/NETS-T
NET: 2.d. Contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.
Essential Questions:
Objectives:
Using Prezi, the students must work in groups and show real applications of geometry around the world, must include at least 3 locations and 5 prezi slides.
Tools and Resources:
Internet access
Prezi tutorial (on website)
Rationale:
By working in teams, students can create an interactive news release and be the announcer they always wanted to be. Working together can take the pressure off of the students of creating a project with a deadline. Students will be able to take responsibility over certain parts and delegate other parts. Creating a unified Prezitation.
Sequence of Activities:
Anticipatory Questions/Activity:
Has anyone seen math in the news lately? Or even when you’re at the checkout counter? What about when you decide to paint a room in your house?
Body of Lesson Plan: Segment #1 (Artifact: link to real world, website, book, picture, etc.)
Have students watch the following Youtube link and make the connection of how we can see geometry all throughout life.
Segment #2 (Factual information/Vocab Includes sample feedback loop)
Ask students questions on what they could use to solve the following problems
Crop circles are an interesting and controversial phenomenon that can best be described as a pattern in a field where the crop (usually wheat) has been flattened. Many believe that the circles are made using a string and a piece of wood to flatten the crops. What would you use to find the area if flattened wheat if the wood was 7feet long? Area of a circle with the radius being 7ft
Firemen, construction workers, and other workers often rely on the use of ladders in their line of work . For example, the height to a second story window may be 25 feet, and a window cleaner may need to put the ladder ten feet away from the house in order to avoid the bushes or flowers. How long of a ladder does the window cleaner need in order to achieve this task?
Use the Pythagorean theorem, set up like 252+102=c2 And solve for c
Allow students to go online with supervision. Have them look for instances of geometry around the world make sure their sources involve pictures or they can create some. Have students solve the problems presented in the applications. Then, have the teacher review their work.
Segment #4 (Detailed directions on how to complete activity)
Students are to then break off into groups of two and create a Prezi. They must use at least three of the pre-found sources together.
Groups of two
Delegate responsibility of creating word problems
Who is going to upload and navigate Prezi
What order will everything go in
Construct the before the end of class the next day
Path must be at least five arrows long.
Create problems like the ones given in the lesson.
Two problems must be from other countries.
The beginning of the project is given in the following Prezi example link
Unit Plan JL Lesson One Lesson Two Lesson Three Lesson Four Lesson Five
Name:_Justine Lakosky__
Prezi tutorial (on website)
Segment #1
(Artifact: link to real world, website, book, picture, etc.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2qSC-A9lqI
(Factual information/Vocab
Includes sample feedback loop)
Crop circles are an interesting and controversial phenomenon that can best be described as a pattern in a field where the crop (usually wheat) has been flattened. Many believe that the circles are made using a string and a piece of wood to flatten the crops. What would you use to find the area if flattened wheat if the wood was 7feet long?
Area of a circle with the radius being 7ft
Firemen, construction workers, and other workers often rely on the use of ladders in their line of work
. For example, the height to a second story window may be 25 feet, and a window cleaner may need to put the ladder ten feet away from the house in order to avoid the bushes or flowers. How long of a ladder does the window cleaner need in order to achieve this task?
Use the Pythagorean theorem, set up like 252+102=c2
And solve for c
(Includes multiple intelligence strategy:
Hands-on, small groups, reteaching strategy)
(Detailed directions on how to complete activity)
The beginning of the project is given in the following Prezi example link
http://prezi.com/wqz0kjrh1ztj/geometry-all-around-the-world/
The embedded image is located at the end of the lesson plan.
The rubric for the Prezi is located within the attachment.
Geometry All around the World on Prezi